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#! rnews 1384 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!news.cse.psu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!peer.news.xara.net!xara.net!netcom.net.uk!ix.netcom.com!news From: Jianyu Wang <jianyu@ix.netcom.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: PPP Connection for Dynamic IP Date: Fri, 03 May 1996 13:12:19 +0000 Organization: Netcom Lines: 14 Message-ID: <318A0633.41C67EA6@ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: har-ct2-25.ix.netcom.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-NETCOM-Date: Fri May 03 1:08:24 PM CDT 1996 X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0b3 (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.1.0-RELEASE i386) I config user PPP to connect to my ISP Netcom. Everything seems to work out fine. I can telnet, ftp and ping a remote host. When I telnet my hostname from a remote host, I get unknown host error. I do: $ telnet myPC.ix.netcom.com I get unknown host. $ telnet myPC IP Address I can login. It doesn't seem there is DNS to map my hostname to IP address. Netcom uses dynamic IP addresses. Right now I am not running named daemon. Can anyone give me advice on how to setup this hostname mapping? Any help will be appreciated. Jay Wang